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Yezo - Hakobuchi, Matsumae mine, Matsumae District, Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

GroupYezo
FormationHakobuchi
Age:70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
IntervalEarly Maastrichtian
Lithologycarbonate
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences2

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Pankerusano-sawa Creek Matsumae mine, Matsumae District, Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, JapanYezo - Hakobuchi

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Mosasaurus hobetsuensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Mosasauridae : Mosasaurus : Mosasaurus hobetsuensis70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Mosasauridae : Phosphorosaurus : Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans70.6 - 66 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Konishi T., Caldwell M. W., et al (2016) A new halisaurine mosasaur (Squamata: Halisaurinae) from Japan: the first record in the western Pacific realm and the first documented insights into binocular vision in mosasaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14 10, 809-839
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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